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Why Evolution Is True

Thursday: Hili dialogue - Welcome to Thursday, August 28, 2025, and National Red Wine Day. If I had my choice, I’d take a bottle of this (from 1999). It’s also National Bow Tie Day...
2 hours ago
Schneier on Security

The UK May Be Dropping Its Backdoor Mandate - The US Director of National Intelligence is reporting that the UK government is dropping its backdoor mandate against the Apple iPhone. For now, at least...
3 hours ago
Azimuth

Rupert’s Property - You can cut a hole in a cube that’s big enough to slide an identical cube through that hole! Think about that for a minute—it’s kind of weird. Amazingly, e...
6 hours ago
Michael Hudson

NATO Shifts to New Fronts - With Ukraine in collapse, Trump redirects NATO toward fresh proxy wars. Michael Hudson outlines U.S. plans to pressure Russia through the Baltics, Syria,...
12 hours ago
Real-World Economics Review Blog

Are the new 2025 national accounts guidelines any good? Part 2. National accounts are political accounts. - One of the great accomplishments of non-university macroeconomics is the establishment of a coherent and consistent set of macroeconomic accounts. These ar...
18 hours ago
Planetocracy

A Triumphant Return to Flight - Skeptics have enjoyed a string of Starship failures - but SpaceX has again proved them wrong.
19 hours ago
oftwominds

AI: False Savior of a Hollowed-Out Economy - *What nobody seems to notice is all the incentives for deploying AI are perverse. * *The real story of the US economy isn't about AI, it's about an econom...
19 hours ago
Noahpinion

The richest third-world country - How long before America's dysfunctional politics start hurting its economy?
1 day ago
Overcoming Bias

Futarchy To Pick Ad Agency - One big obstacle to getting firms to adopt futarchy is this: firm execs are reluctant to open up to wider review decisions that they feel they “own”.
2 days ago
John Quiggin

Monday Message Board - Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits,...
3 days ago
Farnam Street

[Outliers] John Bragg: The Unknown Billionaire Who Controls Half the World’s Blueberries - One man controls half the world’s wild blueberries, built North America’s largest private telecom, and did it all without ever leaving his hometown of 1,...
1 week ago
Casey Handmer's blog

Economics and AI take off - Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) and fully general humanoid robotics are just around the corner, or so many peopl...
1 week ago
The Ethical Skeptic

Houston, We Have Another Problem - This follow-up to our earlier report, Houston, We Have a Problem, identifies a new and deeply concerning signal: excess infant and child mortality in those...
1 week ago
Our Finite World

Why oil prices don’t rise to consistently high levels - The supply and demand model of economists suggests that oil prices might rise to consistently high levels, but this has not happened yet: In my view, the e...
1 week ago
Information Processing - Steve Hsu

Max Dama on HFT: Millisecond Algos and Bid/Ask Dynamics — Manifold #92 - Max Dama is the co-chairman of Headlands Technologies LLC, a global quantitative proprietary trading firm headquartered in Chicago, with offices in New Yor...
2 weeks ago
Shtetl-Optimized

Updates! - (1) My 8-year-old son asked me last week, “daddy, did you hear that GPT-5 is now out?” So yes, I’m indeed aware that GPT-5 is now out! I’ve just started pl...
2 weeks ago
Climate Etc.

Addressing misconceptions about Climate Sensitivity research: a Response to recent Criticisms - by Nic Lewis The determination of equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS)—the long-term warming response to doubled atmospheric CO2 concentrations—remains ...
2 weeks ago
Interdependent Thoughts

Berghonger - Wandelend met E en Y, vorige week in Vorarlberg Bergen hebben altijd een kalmerend effect op me, al sinds ik voor het eerst in de Alpen was toen ik negen w...
2 weeks ago
Rodney Brooks

AI: great expectations - This time around I decided on a guest column. The guest is a 37 years ago younger me, and this post is one that I wrote in for Manufacturing Engineering in...
2 weeks ago
C21st Left

What have I done?? No doubt a terrible thing! - I never forgot this cartoon strip that I first encountered in my first year at La Trobe University, Melbourne, in 1969. I was pleased to recently rediscove...
2 weeks ago
dale lane

Fun things to do with Strava - Ninety-nine percent of the time, I think of Strava as a running app. But every now and then, I do something a bit different with it. Here are a few example...
2 weeks ago
Tekkie

What really happened to object-oriented programming? - I saw a question on Quora asking something like, “Why did Alan Kay’s OOP always fail, and the OOP that was implemented as C++, Java, Delphi, etc. always su...
2 weeks ago
Club Troppo

Sortition? Hmmm… - I am about to break my indication that I am unlikely to post again until after Jen’s death. I am bored to death in this Regis joint filled with old codgers...
2 weeks ago
The Philosopher's Beard

Inheritance Tax Is Largely Irrelevant to the Problem of Economic Inequality - *Also available on my new Substack* *Source*Lots of people think that a few people controlling a very large share of a society's economic power is a bad ...
3 weeks ago
Bits and Behavior - Medium

Fractured bones, fractured mind - [image: Two x-rays, one showing lungs, the other showing a displaced and fractured right clavicle.]Pretty pictures of my broken torso. Five weeks ago my bi...
3 weeks ago
The Snow Report

NAPLAN: Where to from here for students who “need additional support”? - Image source: MS PPT As the news cycle moves on from its annual NAPLAN frenzy, school systems, teachers, and most particularly parents are left wonder...
4 weeks ago
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Answers to student questions on philosophy, STEM, pollution, debates, and more - My Q&A with a high school robotics team
4 weeks ago
Windows On Theory

AI Safety Course Intro Blog - I am teaching CS 2881: AI Safety this fall at Harvard. This blog is primarily aimed at students at Harvard or MIT (where we have a cross-registering agreem...
5 weeks ago
Jennifer Marohasy

Complicating the IPCC Planck Feedback, Plank #4 of Climate Resilience Theory - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has an idea about how the Earth cools itself: when the planet’s surface warms up, it sends more heat...
2 months ago
Computing Education Blog

Seeking K-12 Computing Teachers With Emerging Bilingual students in their classes - Emma Dodoo is a PhD student working with me. Emma works with K-12 computing teachers who have emerging bilingual (EB) students in their classes, e.g., stud...
3 months ago
Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey

Piero and Me - I’ve published some personal reflections on Piero Sraffa in the latest New Left Review.
4 months ago
danah boyd | apophenia

Five Attitudes Towards Climate Change (and the impact on our society) - For years, I thought that there were two “sides” to the discussion around climate change. There were the people who believed in the science and the people ...
4 months ago
STRANGE TIMES

Good News Ukraine. - Sorting out the real situation in the Russo Ukrainian war https://billkerr1947.github.io/ukraineWar/ “Artillery Conquers, Infantry Occupies” and drones are...
4 months ago
Eli Dourado

Cargo airships are happening - I got something wrong; introducing Airship Industries
10 months ago
Invent To Learn

Papert’s 8 Big Ideas (Lithuanian Translation) - Translation by Marius Narvilas Aštuonios didžiosios konstrukcionizmo idėjos Dr Seymour Papert 1999 Pirmoji idėja – mokytis darant. Visada išmokstama ger...
1 year ago
FabLearn Fellows

Marble Maze Modules - Beyond the Marble: How Modular Mazes Build Skills and Spark Wonder Building a marble maze is more than just a fun challenge—it’s a gateway to exploring a w...
1 year ago
Milky Eggs

Lifespan extension: separating fact from fiction - Thinking about longevity practically is a tricky affair. On the one hand, we have very little definitive knowledge about how to prolong your healthy years ...
2 years ago